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  • Pursuing Listeners’ Perceptual Response in Audio-Visual Interactions - Headphones vs Loudspeakers: A Case Study

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    This study investigates listeners’ perceptual responses in audio-visual interactions concerning binaural spatial audio. Audio stimuli are coupled with or without visual cues to the listeners. The subjective test participants are tasked to indicate the direction of the incoming sound while listening to the audio stimulus via loudspeakers or headphones with the head-related transfer function (HRTF) plugin. First, the methodology...

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  • Creating a Remote Choir Performance Recording Based on an Ambisonic Approach

    The aim of this paper is three-fold. First, the basics of binaural and ambisonic techniques are briefly presented. Then, details related to audio-visual recordings of a remote performance of the Academic Choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology are shown. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists had a choice, namely, to stay at home and not perform or stay at home and perform. In fact, staying at home brought in the possibility...

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  • An new method of audio-visual correlation analysis

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    - Rok 2009

    This paper presents a new methodology of conducting the audio-visual correlation analysis employing the gaze tracking system. Interaction between two perceptual modalities, seeing and hearing, their interaction and mutual reinforcement in a complex relationship was a subject of many research studies. Earlier stage of the carried out experiments at the Multimedia Systems Department (MSD) showed that there exists a relationship between...

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  • Examining Acoustic Emission of Engineered Ultrasound Loudspeakers

    Measurement results of the sound emitted from an ultrasound custom-made system with high spatial directivity are presented. The proposed system is using modulated ultrasound waves which demodulate in nonlinear medium resulting in audible sound. The system is aimed at enhancing the users’ personal audio space, therefore the measurements are performed using the Head and Torso Simulator which provides the realistic reproduction of...

  • Measurements and Simulations of Engineered Ultrasound Loudspeakers

    Simulation and measurement results of the sound emitted from an ultrasound custom-made system with high spatial directivity are presented. The proposed system is using modulated ultrasound waves which demodulate in nonlinear medium resulting in audible sound. The system is aimed at enhancing the users’ personal audio space, therefore the measurements are performed using the Head and Torso Simulator which provides realistic reproduction...

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  • Data Analysis in Bridge of Data

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    The chapter presents the data analysis aspects of the Bridge of Data project. The software framework used, Jupyter, and its configuration are presented. The solution’s architecture, including the TRYTON supercomputer as the underlying infrastructure, is described. The use case templates provided by the Stat-reducer application are presented, including data analysis related to spatial points’ cloud-, audio- and wind-related research.

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  • Reverberation divergence in VR applications

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    The aim of this project was to investigate the correlation between virtual reality (VR) imagery and ambisonic sound. With the increasing popularity of VR applications, understanding how sound is perceived in virtual environments is crucial for enhancing the immersiveness of the experience. By examining the relationship between visual scenes and sound scenes, this research attempts to explore how the interaction between vision and...

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  • Automatic system for audio-video material reconstruction and archiving

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    Referat przedstawia propozycję modelu systemu automatycznej archiwizacji i rekonstrukcji nagrań audio-wideo. Założeniem tego rozwiązania jest uczynienie procesu rekonstrukcji nagrań bardziej niezależnym od człowieka. Ma to na celu redukcję kosztów rekonstrukcji przetwarzanych nagrań. Z powodu dużej liczby archiwalnych nagrań audio-wideo istnieje potrzeba stworzenia systemu który umożliwi automatyczną indeksację ich treści. Pomoże...

  • Piotr Szczuko dr hab. inż.

    Dr hab. inż. Piotr Szczuko w 2002 roku ukończył studia na Wydziale Elektroniki, Telekomunikacji i Informatyki Politechniki Gdańskiej zdobywając tytuł magistra inżyniera. Tematem pracy dyplomowej było badanie zjawisk jednoczesnej percepcji obrazu cyfrowego i dźwięku dookólnego. W roku 2008 obronił rozprawę doktorską zatytułowaną "Zastosowanie reguł rozmytych w komputerowej animacji postaci", za którą otrzymał nagrodę Prezesa Rady...

  • Examination of the factors influencing binaural rendering on headphones with the use of directivity patterns

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    - Rok 2018

    This paper presents a study on the influence of the directional sound sources with the use of the directivity patterns. This contribution also includes a comparison to the work done by Wendt et al., where several directivity pattern designs used to gradually control the auditory source distance in a room were showed. While the tests of Wendt et al. were done by auralizing source and room using a loudspeaker ring in an anechoic...

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  • Informal employment in Poland: an empirical spatial analysis

    The main goal of our article is to bridge the gap in the regional analysis of informal employment in Poland and in particular to indicate the propensity for informal work in the working-age population, to test if informal activities are typical for marginalized people (less educated, unemployed, older) and to identify the regional and spatial heterogeneity in the propensity. We use data from the ‘Human Capital Balance 2010–2014’...

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  • JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY

    Czasopisma

    ISSN: 1549-4950

  • EXAMINING INFLUENCE OF VIDEO FRAMERATE AND AUDIO/VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION ON AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY

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    The problem of video framerate and audio/video synchronization in audio-visual speech recogni-tion is considered. The visual features are added to the acoustic parameters in order to improve the accuracy of speech recognition in noisy conditions. The Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients are used on the acoustic side whereas Active Appearance Model features are extracted from the image. The feature fusion approach is employed. The...

  • EXAMINING INFLUENCE OF VIDEO FRAMERATE AND AUDIO/VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION ON AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY

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    The problem of video framerate and audio/video synchronization in audio-visual speech recognition is considered. The visual features are added to the acoustic parameters in order to improve the accuracy of speech recognition in noisy conditions. The Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients are used on the acoustic side whereas Active Appearance Model features are extracted from the image. The feature fusion approach is employed. The...

  • Elimination of Impulsive Disturbances From Archive Audio Signals Using Bidirectional Processing

    In this application-oriented paper we consider the problem of elimination of impulsive disturbances, such as clicks, pops and record scratches, from archive audio recordings. The proposed approach is based on bidirectional processing—noise pulses are localized by combining the results of forward-time and backward-time signal analysis. Based on the results of specially designed empirical tests (rather than on the results of theoretical analysis),...

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  • Measurement of Latency in the Android Audio Path

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    This paper provides a description of experimental investigations concerning comparison between the audio path characteristics of various Android versions. First, information about the changes in each system version in the context of latency caused by them is presented. Then, a measurement procedure employing available applications to measure latency is described comparing to results contained in the Internet. Finally, a comparison...

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  • Spatial Planning 2022-2023

    Kursy Online
    • D. Wróblewska

    Spatial Planning is a course dedicated to students of full-time MSc Studies in Environmental Engineering (semester I). This course is organized online together with the Rotterdam University of Applied Science in Rotterdam.

  • Retrospecting Polish Audio Engineering Society Membership on 20th Anniversary of the Polish Section of the Audio Engineering Society

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    - Archives of Acoustics - Rok 2011

    In this article some key events concerning founding Polish Section of the Audio Engineering Society were presented. In addition, the history covering International Symposia on Sound Engineering and Mastering was outlined. Also, papers contained in this issue were shortly reviewed.

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  • Objectivization of audio-video correlation assessment experiments

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    - Rok 2010

    The purpose of this paper is to present a new method of conducting an audio-visual correlation analysis employing a head-motion-free gaze tracking system. First, a review of related works in the domain of sound and vision correlation is presented. Then assumptions concerning audio-visual scene creation are shortly described. The objectivization process of carrying out correlation tests employing gaze-tracking system is outlined....

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  • Intelligent video and audio applications for learning enhancement

    The role of computers in school education is briefly discussed. Multimodal interfaces development history is shortly reviewed. Examples of applications of multimodal interfaces for learners with special educational needs are presented, including interactive electronic whiteboard based on video image analysis, application for controlling computers with facial expression and speech stretching audio interface representing audio modality....

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  • Detection of impulsive disturbances in archive audio signals

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    In this paper the problem of detection of impulsive disturbances in archive audio signals is considered. It is shown that semi-causal/noncausal solutions based on joint evaluation of signal prediction errors and leave-one-out signal interpolation errors, allow one to noticeably improve detection results compared to the prediction-only based solutions. The proposed approaches are evaluated on a set of clean audio signals contaminated...

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  • Exploiting audio-visual correlation by means of gaze tracking

    This paper presents a novel means for increasing audio-visual correlation analysis reliability. This is done based on gaze tracking technology engineered at the Multimedia Systems Department of the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. In the paper, the past history and current research in the area of audio-visual perception analysis are shortly reviewed. Then the methodology employing gaze tracking is presented along with the...

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  • Personal adaptive tuning of mobile computer audio

    An integrated methodology for enhancing audio quality in mobile computers is presented. The key features are adaptation of the characteristics of the acoustic track to the changing conditions and to the user's individual preferences. Original signal processing algorithms are introduced, which concern: linearization of frequency response, dialogue intelligibility enhancement and dynamics processing tuned up to the user's preferences....

  • Elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio recordings

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    This paper presents a new approach to elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio recordings. The proposed solution is based on vector autoregressive modeling of audio signals. On-line tracking of signal model parameters is performed using the stability-preserving Whittle-Wiggins-Robinson algorithm with exponential data weighting. Detection of noise pulses and model-based interpolation of the irrevocably distorted samples...

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  • Digital Audio Broadcasting or Webcasting: A Network Quality Perspective

    In recent years, many alternative technologies of delivering audio content have emerged, with different advantages and disadvantages. In this paper pros and cons of digital audio broadcasting and webcasting transmission techniques in a network quality perspective are described. A case study of user expectations with respect to currently available services is analyzed, and the perceived quality of real digital broadcasted and webcasted...

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  • A Study on Audio Signal Processed by "Instant Mastering"

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    - Rok 2018

    An increasing amount of music produced in home- and project-studios results in development and growth of "automatic mastering services". The presented investigation explores changes introduced to audio signal by various online mastering platforms. A music set consisting of 10 songs produced in small facilities was processed by eight on-line automatic mastering services. Additionally, some laboratory-constructed signals were tested....

  • System do prototypowania bezprzewodowych inteligentnych urządzeń monitoringu audio-video

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    - Rok 2013

    W komunikacie przedstawiono system prototypowania bezprzewodowych urządzeń do monitoringu audio-video. System bazuje na układach FPGA Virtex6 i wielu dodatkowych wspierających urządzeniach jak: szybka pamięć DDR3, mała kamera HD, mikrofon z konwerterem A/C, moduł radiowy WiFi, itp. Funkcjonalność systemu została szczegółowo opisana w komunikacie. System został zoptymalizowany do pracy pod kontrolą systemu operacyjnego Linux, zostały...

  • Elimination of Impulsive Disturbances From Stereo Audio Recordings Using Vector Autoregressive Modeling and Variable-order Kalman Filtering

    This paper presents a new approach to elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio recordings. The proposed solution is based on vector autoregressive modeling of audio signals. Online tracking of signal model parameters is performed using the exponential ly weighted least squares algo- rithm. Detection of noise pulses an d model-based interpolation of the irrevocably distorted sampl es is realized using an adaptive, variable-order...

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  • Testing Watermark Robustness against Application of Audio Restoration Algorithms

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    The purpose of this study was to test to what extent watermarks embedded in distorted audio signals are immune to audio restoration algorithm performing. Several restoration routines such as noise reduction, spectrum expansion, clipping or clicks reduction were applied in the online website system. The online service was extended with some copyright protection mechanisms proposed by the authors. They contain low-level music features...

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  • An audio-visual corpus for multimodal automatic speech recognition

    review of available audio-visual speech corpora and a description of a new multimodal corpus of English speech recordings is provided. The new corpus containing 31 hours of recordings was created specifically to assist audio-visual speech recognition systems (AVSR) development. The database related to the corpus includes high-resolution, high-framerate stereoscopic video streams from RGB cameras, depth imaging stream utilizing Time-of-Flight...

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  • A double-talk detector using audio watermarking

    a novel approach to double-talk detection in the acoustic echo canceler is proposed. a hidden signature is embedded into the arriving signal, using the echo-hiding method. next detection of the presence of this signature in the microphone signal is performed. the results of the signature detection may be used by the acoustic echo canceler to stop or restart the adaptation process.

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  • Audio content analysis in the urban area telemonitoring system

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    Artykuł przedstawia możliwości rozwinięcie monitoringu miejskiego o automatyczną analizę dźwięku. Przedstawiono metody parametryzacji dźwięku, które możliwe są do zastosowania w takim systemie oraz omówiono aspekty techniczne implementacji. W kolejnej części przedstawiono system decyzyjny oparty na drzewach zastosowany w systemie. System ten rozpoznaje dźwięki niebezpieczne (strzał, rozbita szyba, krzyk) wśród dźwięków zarejestrowanych...

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  • Bożena Kostek prof. dr hab. inż.

  • Localization of impulsive disturbances in audio signals using template matching

    In this paper, a new solution to the problem of elimination of impulsive disturbances from audio signals, based on the matched filtering technique, is proposed. The new approach stems from the observation that a large proportion of noise pulses corrupting audio recordings have highly repetitive shapes that match several typical “patterns”. In many cases a representative set of exemplary pulse waveforms can be extracted from the...

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  • Objectivization of Audio-Visual Correlation analysis

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    Simultaneous perception of audio and visual stimuli often causes the concealment or misrepresentation of information actually contained in these stimuli. Such effects are called the ''image proximity effect'' or the ''ventriloquism effect'' in literature. Until recently, most research carried out to understand their nature was based on subjective assessments. The Authors of this paper propose a methodology based on both subjective...

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  • Spatial planning on regional level

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    Polish spatial planning results from typical for countries of Central and Eastern Europe transition . They have undergone the transformation from decentralized management system based on the dominance of state to the system of representative democracy, based on self-government administration; also territorial on regional level.

  • Analysis of impact of audio modifications on the robustness of watermark for non-blind architecture

    The aim of this paper is to assess the robustness of the non-blind audio content watermarking scheme proposed by the authors. The authors present the architecture of the designed system along with the employed workflows for embedding and extracting the watermark followed by the implementation phase description and the analysis of the experimental results. Some possible attack simulations on the embedded watermarks are reviewed,...

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  • Determining Pronunciation Differences in English Allophones Utilizing Audio Signal Parameterization

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    - Rok 2017

    An allophonic description of English plosive consonants, based on audio-visual recordings of 600 specially selected words, was developed. First, several speakers were recorded while reading words from a teleprompter. Then, every word was played back from the previously recorded sample read by a phonology expert and each examined speaker repeated a particular word trying to imitate correct pronunciation. The next step consisted...

  • Parametric impulsive noise detector for corrupted audio signals based on hidden Markow model

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    - Rok 2008

    The paper addresses the problem of impulsive noise detection for audio signals. A structure of threshold parameter detectors using modelingof signals was introduced. the algorithm of the noise detection, based on discrete-time hidden Markow model (HMM)of whitened audio signal is elaborated

  • Classifying type of vehicles on the basis of data extracted from audio signal characteristics

    The aim of this study is to find and optimize a feature vector for an automatic recognition of the type of vehicles, extracted form an audio signal. First, the influence of weather-based conditions of road surface on spectral characteristic of the audio signal recorded from a passing vehicle in close proximity to the road is discussed. Next, parameterization of the recorded audio signal is performed. For that purpose, the MIRtoolbox,...

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  • Intelligent Audio Signal Processing − Do We Still Need Annotated Datasets?

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    - Rok 2022

    In this paper, intelligent audio signal processing examples are shortly described. The focus is, however, on the machine learning approach and datasets needed, especially for deep learning models. Years of intense research produced many important results in this area; however, the goal of fully intelligent signal processing, characterized by its autonomous acting, is not yet achieved. Therefore, a review of state-of-the-art concerning...

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  • RENOVATION OF ARCHIVE AUDIO RECORDINGS USING SPARSE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING AND BIDIRECTIONAL PROCESSING

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    The paper presents a new approach to elimination of broadband noise and impulsive disturbances from archive audio recordings. The proposed adaptive Kalman-like algorithm, based on a sparse autoregressive model of the audio signal, simultaneously detects noise pulses, interpolates the irrevocably distorted samples and performs signal smoothing. It is shown that bidirectional (forward-backward) processing of the archive signal improves...

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  • Using concentrated spectrogram for analysis of audio acoustic signals

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    The paper presents results of time-frequency analysis of audio acoustic signals using the method of Concentrated Spectrograph also known as ''Cross-spectral method'' or ''Reassignment method''. Presented algorithm involves signal's local group delay and channelized instantaneous frequency to relevantly redistribute all Short-time Fourier transform lines in time-frequency plain. The main intention of the paper is to compare various...

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  • Sparse vector autoregressive modeling of audio signals and its application to the elimination of impulsive disturbances

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    Archive audio files are often corrupted by impulsive disturbances, such as clicks, pops and record scratches. This paper presents a new method for elimination of impulsive disturbances from stereo audio signals. The proposed approach is based on a sparse vector autoregressive signal model, made up of two components: one taking care of short-term signal correlations, and the other one taking care of long-term correlations. The method...

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  • Objectivization of phonological evaluation of speech elements by means of audio parametrization

    This study addresses two issues related to both machine- and subjective-based speech evaluation by investigating five phonological phenomena related to allophone production. Its aim is to use objective parametrization and phonological classification of the recorded allophones. These allophones were selected as specifically difficult for Polish speakers of English: aspiration, final obstruent devoicing, dark lateral /l/, velar nasal...

  • Spatial and Regional Studies 2022/2023

    Kursy Online
    • Ł. Pancewicz
    • M. Arczyńska

    The objective of the course Spatial Planning is to teach the architects the key concepts of town planning as well as about its relationship with the architectural practice. The exercises are designed to familiarize the participants with the main concepts that directly impacts on the work of architects, regardless of their respective national context:planning control, role of the technical regulations and the planning permissions; zoning...

  • Quality Analysis of Audio-Video Transmission in an OFDM-Based Communication System

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    - Rok 2022

    Application of a reliable audio-video communication system, brings many advantages. With the spoken word we can exchange ideas, provide descriptive information, as well as aid to another person. With the availability of visual information one can monitor the surrounding, working environment, etc. As the amount of available bandwidth continues to shrink, researchers focus on novel types of transmission. Currently, orthogonal frequency...

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  • METHODS OF TEACHING SPATIAL AND URBAN PLANNING AT GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY

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    Spatial and town planning is a complex process caused by the interaction between natural and social systems at different temporal and spatial scales. That is the reason, why it is difficult to introduce this subject to students studying disciplines other than spatial or urban planning. The main problem is to define goals, the scope and expected educational effects. The second step is to choose the appropriate teaching and assessment...

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  • Audio-visual aspect of the Lombard effect and comparison with recordings depicting emotional states.

    In this paper an analysis of audio-visual recordings of the Lombard effect is shown. First, audio signal is analyzed indicating the presence of this phenomenon in the recorded sessions. The principal aim, however, was to discuss problems related to extracting differences caused by the Lombard effect, present in the video , i.e. visible as tension and work of facial muscles aligned to an increase in the intensity of the articulated...

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  • Shaping the spatial structures of post-socialist cities

    This paper deals with issues and problems associated with transformation of spatial structures of post-socialist cities. The special attention is paid to the cases of Polish cities and towns and the analysis of their evolution – from the “post-communist structures” to the “cities in the age of globalization”. In the light of this the factors influencing the spatial transformation of these are analyzed. The paper is concluded with...